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StatisticsFilter: Correlation over time?

If I'm looking at existing statistical data, how do I try to find a correlation between two variables over time? Scatterplots have confused me, because they don't seem to reflect the passage of time, but just where x and y meet. Pearson's r doesn't seem to do it either w/r/t time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by trondant at 12:40 AM on December 11, 2007 (13 comments)

For anything but privacy, there's MasterCard

DHS monitors your credit card payments. (via)
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 9:52 PM on March 2, 2006 (58 comments)

What's the most you can cost someone who sent you a prepaid business reply mail envelope?

What's the most you can cost someone who sent you a prepaid business reply mail envelope? I just got one of these, fishing for a tax-deductible donation to a 501(c)(3) group, one I would pay money to see stomped to death. I want to hear from people who've done this and suffered no repercussions, as well as any former or current USPS employees who might know where that fine line is. I'm also open to anything that keeps me on the mailing list, but still costs them more in postage than it's worth.
posted to Ask Metafilter by trondant at 9:27 PM on February 22, 2005 (15 comments)

"The Hazards of Private Spy Operations"

The Pond is the history of a secret, independent US intelligence-gathering group which preceded (and outlasted) the OSS. Shuffled from Cabinet to Cabinet to the CIA, it eventually ran aground against the infighting of McCarthy's Red Scare hearings and was no more by 1955.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 9:14 PM on February 2, 2005 (8 comments)

"We lost our whole squad that day,"

Echo Company An emotionally trying account of an ambush in Iraq this past April that took the lives of twelve Americans and who knows how many Iraqis, from two journalists who were there. Included is a timeline, audio & video, photogalleries, and reactions from the friends and family they left behind. You can read a USMC account of the memorial service here. via Editor & Publisher [Flash/Real]
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 12:16 AM on September 2, 2004 (10 comments)

Arf!

Dog toy or marital aid? Take the test. You insert, you decide.
(NSFW unless you work at a kennel. Or a sex-toy shop. Via a friend.)
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 9:36 PM on June 23, 2004 (21 comments)

Jesus saves (on prescription drugs)

The Son of God has Prozac and Viagra on sale now. Why bother with know-it-all pharmacists when you can get prescription drugs from Jesus Himself? He even sells birth control for only $129.99 a month (loaves and fishes not included.) via The General
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 8:44 AM on June 4, 2004 (19 comments)

The DOJ invites Greenpeace to take a long walk off a short plank.

Shiver me illegally-harvested timbers! Why dust off a law used only twice, most recently 114 years ago? Because you have a grand jury and you can. The alleged sailor-mongerers have issued a statement on their website.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 5:38 PM on May 13, 2004 (48 comments)

Coming soon to an EU near you

Visit sunny Molvanîa! The guidebook is here. Just don't mix them up with Moldavia. They hate that.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 9:59 PM on April 28, 2004 (16 comments)

Practice makes perfetta

Simulatore di Orgasmi
Italian Orgasm Simulator. NSFW. Flash.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 8:50 PM on March 21, 2004 (13 comments)

''It was not a fraternity-sanctioned event.''

Michael Bloomberg and Woodrow Wilson must be proud. The Holiday dinner meets double-secret probation. Be afraid - very afraid.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 7:26 AM on December 25, 2003 (16 comments)

"Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!"

A Flash-heavy "Illustrated Complete Summary of Gravity's Rainbow". Includes an Episode Guide and a gallery of related art. See also the Wikipedia entry if you want some background, including a link to an online concordance.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 10:28 PM on December 14, 2003 (15 comments)

A questionable demise?

Kenneth Michael Trentadue was found dead in his cell in 1995, and ruled a suicide despite sloppy handling of evidence and other eyebrow-raisers. DOJ's Civil Rights Division punted in 1997, and it was again ruled suicide in 1999 by their Office of the Inspector General. Last week, an AP story said the DOJ's Public Integrity Section would be taking the matter up yet again. While there are plenty of fringe sources in a google search on his full name, there seems to be enough in the mainstream to support the notion that something doesn't add up.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 12:04 AM on December 2, 2003 (5 comments)

Do you want this MTV?

These guys have something for sale here If we all went in on it together, what could we do with it? (Aside from arguing over it, of course.)
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 10:24 AM on November 14, 2003 (8 comments)

Rainbow Farms revisited

An article in the upcoming issue of Playboy (via MAP) examines in more detail a lethal standoff between a pot-smoking festival organizer and the government. Another attempt to drop out and do as one pleases met with another unhappy outcome. Rainbow farms was previously discussed here.
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 9:59 PM on September 2, 2003 (9 comments)

The Booby Hatch?

Orrin Hatch's website. So after Senator Hatch favors trashing the computers of fileswappers, it turns out his own website contained unlicensed code. To top it off, one of the links on his website leads here (NSFW). [more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by trondant at 8:03 PM on June 19, 2003 (20 comments)